Evolution of AWS EC2 General-Purpose: A 13-Year Performance and Price Analysis - Bandwidth
Go back to listWe measure local bandwidth between two identical machines in the same datacenter. The tool used here is Iperf 3 with TCP mode and a number of thread equal to CPU.
iperf3 --client $client_ip --interval 30 --parallel $cpu_number --time 60 --format M --json # On client
iperf3 --server --version4 --interval 30 # On server
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Observations:
- n suffixed VMs offer 3 times more bandwidth than original ones
- m7g and m8g also have an extra small bandwidth